How much do you know about the female body? Your body? Or your friend's, your sister's, your daughter's? Oh, you know the one ...

Every ten minutes, somewhere in the world, a woman dies at the hands of someone who claimed to love her. In South Africa, the ...

In 1977, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally for their discovery and synthesis of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), a key regulator of ...

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends screening women of reproductive age for intimate partner violence ...

Researchers from the UAB have shown that sex hormones accumulate in the skin of sharks. This finding opens a new way for the ...

A new study from Imperial has shown that the physical structure of food influences the hormones released as part of digestion ...

At 20 weeks a female fetus has six to seven million egg cells. That number drops to about one to two million after a baby girl is born. At puberty there are between 300,000 and 500,000 egg cells.

Jessica Mackler, the president of EMILYs List, says we are in a "full-blown" crisis. She lays out what’s at stake for women ...

Reproductive biology involves the scientific study of the reproductive system. Improved understanding of reproductive biology can lead to new treatments for reproductive disorders, such as ...

The primary visual cortex (V1) is probably the best characterized area of primate cortex, but whether this region contributes directly to conscious visual experience is controversial. Early ...

The Bloch function analysis is applied to the problem of periodical phase-locked semiconductor laser array structures. This method makes it possible to treat in the same manner both evanescent and ...

The omasum is a globe-shaped structure containing leaves of tissue (like pages in a book). It absorbs water and other substances from digestive contents. Feed material (ingesta) between the leaves ...